darsal commented on CCleaner 2.0 Decrapifies Your PC

"Agreed it's probably not worth obsessive attention, but occasional attention can stave off larger and more mysterious problems down the road. For example, if you're sloppy with your Outlook attachment handling you'll slow and then stop your ability to open new attachments - and Outlook may start crashing randomly."

darsal commented on How to Skip the Installation Delay for Firefox Extensions

"I'd like to meet the person who installs extensions so frequently that waiting a few seconds "every time you install a new extension" is a significant problem. I'm pretty extended, but this tip would have saved me a mere 4 minutes across a few years of using Firefox. For me, that's not worth opening the security hole, no matter how small it seems."

darsal commented on George W. Bush Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize

"[nobelprize.org] "Has X been nominated as a candidate for the Nobel Prize? Information about the nominations, investigations, and opinions concerning the award is kept secret for fifty years.""

darsal commented on Disable Windows' "Use the Web Service" Prompt on Unknown Files

"Alerts to the QC department: If you get to HKLM/..."

darsal commented on Mount USB Drives in Assigned Folders to Keep Them Straight

"I'm not crazy."

darsal commented on Does Your Phone Auto-Check Email?

"For my last job I was auto-checking every 30 minutes (tried realtime but my battery couldn't handle it), but there was an SLA involved so it wasn't really an option to do anything longer. Since leaving there, I kept the auto-checking going but relaxed the interval to 2-3 hours."

darsal commented on Reuse Another Computer's Windows XP Disc?

"There are two issues: will the CD work, and is it legal? Will the CD work?"

darsal commented on Best Digital Photo Organizer?

"I tried a lot of them, but with 30K files weighing in at 80GB I wasn't happy with performance I was getting."

darsal commented on Read Word 2007 Files in Internet Explorer, No Word Required

"Google tells me the Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack was featured here in late 2006."

darsal commented on Mimic Vista's File Rename Feature in XP

"I'm totally guessing, but wouldn't the send-send-send-send or send 4 combo only work for three letter extensions?"

darsal commented on Ever Paid for Commercial Data Recovery?

"Like some above, I've had drives recovered for clients."

darsal commented on Recover Disk Space by Deleting Uninstall Folders

"Keep a month or two's worth of uninstall folders, in case recent updates cause conflicts you haven't yet discovered."

darsal commented on Arantix Carbon Mesh Bike From Delta 7: Light, Sturdy, Shrapnel-Resistant? (Video)

"Looks the same as these photos from 2004: [www.cyclingnews.com] Which means they may be no closer to production now - and the value is probably even farther from the price than it ever was..."

darsal commented on New Hard Drive Sensors to Increase Density 5x, Read Times By 10x

" The disk in that photo is one of 50 that went into an IBM RAMAC."

darsal commented on DPReview Does a 12-Page "Preview" of Nikon's D300

" Yeah, the lenses - and the person looking through them. But as a digital photography enthusiast, a Nikon shooter, and a longtime reader of DP Review, I gotta say: yep, 12 pages is just a preview."